Guess what, Larry....this will include YOU. And your behavior.

🎵Black Hole Star....🎵

This has been pushed to the background, but pay attention: Right now, a stack of bills aimed at reining in AI companies and big tech sits on Gavin Newsom's desk in California. These are the bills Silicon Valley and the GOP tried to ban outright. Now they await Newsom's signature—or veto.

Ruin a book with a car: The Bonfirebird of the Vanities

Well, they are going to have to do a lot of programming (which right now they can't do) to get these all to play together socially in the Commons without colliding. As I wrote. In 2013 (post): posr.org/wiki/Amazon_... and again in 2016 (book chapter): link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

It already has: him.

They lost ad revenue with Craig's List. That's what sunk them.

Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right. Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!

Flock around, find out: Flock apparently decided to reinstall all of the ALPRs they recently took down in Evanston. One problem though: they didn't consult Evanston about it. The city sent a cease & desist letter, and Flock has "committed to promptly removing the cameras." Full story here ⬇️

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Listen to the man, here. He knows. Hey tech, hire anthropologists! We can help you with this. I can help you with this. And, I'm available!

There is a vast difference in the architecture of a software-intensive system whose failure may result in human death versus one whose failure may yield only economic or temporal costs.

There is a vast difference in the architecture of a software-intensive system that is disposable versus one that is expected to endure.

There is a vast difference in the architecture of a software-intensive system that has only a few users versus one that may have millions upon millions of users with global, elastic, and chaotic operation.

There is a vast difference in the architecture of a software-intensive system whose operation requires a hard real time response versus one that operates within the envelop of human patience.

There is a vast difference in the architecture of a software-intensive system whose output must always be accurate and precise versus one whose output can just be good enough.

When they say ai is a time saver what that often means is that it’s a tool that makes it easier for you to waste someone else’s time.

Silicon Valley VCs have been using tech as a financial instrument for decades. It hasn't been about the ideas or the tech for a loooooong time. It's about money. And now that they have it, they want to spend it on 'hobbies' like smart cities and pwning countries.

WSJ: "Cardboard-box demand is slumping .. to the lowest levels since 2016. On a per-capita basis, the drop is even sharper, with box shipments per American down more than 20% from their 1999 peak." @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/car...

Everybody ok?

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Conducting tasks while receiving e-mails and phone calls reduces a worker’s IQ by about ten points relative to working in uninterrupted quiet. That is equivalent to losing a night’s sleep, and twice as debilitating as using marijuana.

Rage Against the Machine Learning

technologically advance a band. Black Token

Technologically advance a band: OpenRamonespedia

"Free."

Many mayors have tech FOMO. They crave the sheen of all that tech dough. It's like Student Gov was their early path and now that tech is where money/power is, they're suddenly willing to sell out everything to try to get that 'cool.' This never works. Also, tech mostly isn't 'cool.' It's not 1997.

Oxford is the biggest "brand" of the UK schools. As such, it has a lot more to lose when this goes wrong, and this will go wrong. Very wrong. For so many reasons.

They’re only Tim Tams if they come from the Tim Tam region of Australia. Otherwise they’re just:

Pope Leo gets this one right. www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

It's super something, but doesn't seem an intelligent move in any aspect.

I will contine to post our ethics paper on these www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Nope.

A retreating glacier has revealed a new island in Alaska, as lake water filled in to surround a land mass once hugged by ice.

Dig this "ancient" pop from the 80's. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOVM...

Pope Leo XIV said a proposal to create an AI-version of him so people could have a virtual audience with the pope pretty much horrified him.

They really want to syphon every last bit of humanity out of us. Just what everyone wants--a 24/7 needy greedy insufferable Tamagotchi with AI capabilities. Pass.

A reminder that 64 Japanese undergraduate facial expressions DO NOT SCALE.

They don't. They just match and prioritize words. That's it. There are bad outcomes from poor matches, but that is something else.

Tip: If you lose your AirPods in a public place and can’t find them, use Find My to play a sound on them over and over until the person who find them gets sick of it and—seeing you nearby looking forlorn—returns them. (Or at least it worked for me, about 90 minutes after I lost them.)

Samsung has rolled out a software update to its smart fridges that will display ads, despite saying they had "no plans" to do so. We're headed for a future where you will have to pay extra for appliances without ads.

Learn from this: Tech is not a good model: www.fastcompany.com/90913298/oce...

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

I logged onto see Academia.edu had profiled my papers with "Ai audio summaries" that were unauthorized. So I deleted my account. You should, too. #academictwitter #ethics

Daily life in 2025. #AI #Tech #JustLetMeBe #FFS

@bonstewart.bsky.social Links for you today about the Bowie archive: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... (gift link) and direct archive: www.vam.ac.uk/collections/...

“Technology firms behind artificial intelligence–based note-taking software — marketed to therapists as a time-saving administrative tool — have quietly included provisions in their terms and conditions that allow patients’ therapy records to be sold and manipulated to train other AI applications.”

The cassette may be on the verge of a comeback — not as a mixtape in a retro Walkman, but as the world’s most advanced storage device.

We've all heard about the Columbian Exchange, right? Does Italian food get to have tomatoes? Do french fries exist? Chicken tikka masala was invented in Britain and the döner kepab sandwich as we know it today in Germany. Ramen came about because of imported wheat. What does "from" mean?

It probably didn't calculate a 3 person payload and dragging a boat behind it to boot.